David Parfitt 'At Home Beside the Tidal Thames' | Exhibition

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Event Date: End 2021-08-18 00:00 ~ 2021-09-03 23:59

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David Parfitt 'At Home Beside the Tidal Thames'

David Parfitt 'Bridges and Tower Blocks' oil on board

David Parfitt 'Bridge and Boatyard, Spring Morning' oil on canvas 91 x 122 cm

David Parfitt 'At Home Beside the Tidal Thames' | Exhibition

Online Exhibition Space Online

Event Date: End 2021-08-18 00:00 ~ 2021-09-03 23:59

Project Key : #Online, #home, #Drawing Painting

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A notable characteristic linking many of the contemporary British painters represented by Messum’s is their strong attachment to place. This is true of none more so than David Parfitt. In 1978 he moved into a fine old house directly overlooking the Thames at Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick. The water rises and falls with the tide, the sun and seasons come and go, there is the neverending passage of boats and birds and people. For hours Parfitt sits at his first-floor balcony, or in his little front garden, watching the world go by, observing it, painting it.

This view up and down the Thames has been the predominant subject for his work for the best part of two decades now, as he continues in his purpose of ‘learning to look with intensity,’ as he so eloquently puts it. So Parfitt does not wander too far from home in search of a subject. “Narrowing it down opens up a potential whole new world. By stopping and looking, you see all the variety in one place, and then it no longer looks like one place anymore”. His paintings are equally faithful to both realist and impressionist ideals, revisiting a local continuum that goes back to Turner and extends directly to Greaves, Whistler, Pissarro, Sisley and Monet.

Growing up in the industrial valleys of South Wales, Parfitt was keenly aware of industry and its effect on how people saw their environment and themselves, but contends that, to his eye, the pitheads, terraces, market stalls, wash lines and ever growing forests of television aerials held an inherent beauty and pattern and it is this same beauty he sees today in the latticed shadow play of a railway bridge.

Accepted 2021-08-13 10:18

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Activity Area : Local/Town Space

Contacts/Email : A showcase of twenty paintings will be on view at Messum's St. James's exploring the view up and down the Thames at Kew which has been the predominant subject for David Parfitt's work for the best part of two decades now...

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